Iran said it will continue cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency and expects a new round of discussions with the UN watchdog in the coming days, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei told state media on 18 August. Tehran suspended formal cooperation with the agency last month after parliament approved legislation in response to June airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities attributed to Israel and the United States. Since the strikes, IAEA inspectors have been barred from Iranian sites. The agency’s 31 May report had found traces of undeclared nuclear activity, findings Iran says encouraged the attacks. Baghaei rejected a separate offer by Britain, France and Germany to delay an end-August deadline for triggering UN ‘snapback’ sanctions if Iran reopened wider nuclear talks with Western powers, saying Tehran has “no plans to extend this mechanism.” Despite that stance, he stressed that direct engagement with the IAEA would proceed.
Iran will continue talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog and the two sides will probably have another round of negotiations in the coming days, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told state media on Monday. https://t.co/kBdS9Fjye4
Bakaei: A new round of negotiations between Iran and the Agency will begin in the coming days Spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs: 🔹 “The purpose of the visit by the director and deputy director general of the Agency was to consider ways of cooperation https://t.co/okdXjhbuGw
🚨 TEHRAN TALKS TOUGH, BUT KEEPS THE DOOR OPEN FOR IAEA Iran’s Foreign Ministry says it will continue talks with the IAEA, but don’t mistake that for a warm welcome. After accusing the UN nuclear watchdog of enabling Israeli and U.S. airstrikes on its nuclear sites, Tehran now https://t.co/TuI6pE4dCJ